Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 36

• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

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  Sick, Disease, Facts

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• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

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  Sea, Land, Hug

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• No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII, 1922.

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• Home joys are blessed of heaven.

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  Blessed, Home, Joy

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• Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

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  Quiet, Length, Weary

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• We pardon familiar vices.

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  Vices, Pardon, Familiar

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• Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

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  Firsts, Remedy, Extremes

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• He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

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  May, Thanks, Wells

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• Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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  Light, Dumb, Care

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• To meditate an injury is to commit one.

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  Injury, Commit

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• While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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  Life, Fate, Years

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• No one can wear a mask for very long.

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  Long, Wearing A Mask, Mask

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• Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

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  Men, Good Man, Wrinkle In Time

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• The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

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  Errors, Firsts, Steps

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• Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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  Unjust, Dominion, Eternal

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

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  Library, Wander, Learners

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• The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

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  Life, Wise, Men

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• For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

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  Reason, Divine, Whole

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• The young man must store up, the old man must use.

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  Men, Use, Stores

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• When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

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• We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

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  Understanding, Whole

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• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Science

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• Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

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  Grief, Men, Weight

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• The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

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  Giving, Creditors, Stomach

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• Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

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  Travel, Ties, Hospitality

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